Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocky struck out at Democrat Jack Kennedy and Republican Rival Goldwater with equal vigah. Cried he in St. Louis: "The foundations of our safety are being sapped. Our position is gradually being eroded in squabbles with allies, potentially explosive situations in Latin America and Asia and Africa and, above all, through a lack of understanding of the Communist challenge. Three years after the coming into office with grandiloquent promises about 'getting America moving again,' we find the Administration bewildered, floundering in a sea of expedients. And each expedient magnifies the next crisis . . . Blinded by the illusion that...
...Senate, Oregon's Wayne Morse, a liberal Democrat and the foreign aid program's most vitriolic critic, retorted: "The President ought to be much less concerned about who is going to be blamed and much more concerned about proceeding to bring about the necessary reforms in the foreign aid program." With that, Morse and his colleagues went back to sawing off more pieces of the bill...
...authorization is only half the struggle. After that, the Congress must approve the actual appropriations. For years Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's foreign operations subcommittee, has been trying to cut foreign aid to the barest bone. But in the climate of the 1963 Congress, Passman seems likelier than ever to have his way. And what does he say? He says: "Anything over $2.7 billion would be a waste of money...
...Ever since the Supreme Court outlawed prayer and Bible reading in public schools, some Congressmen have felt that the nine Justices needed a little reminder that the nation-and the court -was still subject to a higher authority. One method proposed by South Carolina Democrat Robert T. Ashmore, in a bill before the House, is to inscribe the words "In God We Trust" on the marble frieze above the Supreme Court bench...
...chapters are somewhat out-of-date. The chapter on reform is essentially a synopsis of Wilson's The Amateur Democrat and fails consider what has happened to New York's reform movement in the last eighteen months. The chapter on the Negroes is also slightly dated, but to ask that a book published early this fall contain references to the events of last summer would be unfair...